Getting the VSTS2010 CTP Virtual Machine working well on Hyper-V

granth's blog - Converting VS2010 CTP to Hyper-V

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You can download the VPC from here. It’s quite a large download at 7.11GB and I suggest you follow Brian Keller’s post on a more reliable and faster download experience.

The purpose of this post is to show you that it is possible to run the CTP under Hyper-V. This can yield better performance depending on your hardware configuration.

Caveats:

• This is not an officially tested scenario. Things may or may not work. You’re on your own.
• Microsoft Excel is immediately crippled to reduced functionality mode. You will need to install your own licensed copy if you want to use it.
• Microsoft Project remains in countdown mode.

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Summary:

1. Download the CTP and uncompress it
2. Create a new Virtual Machine in Hyper-V Manager
3. Attach the extracted .vhd
4. Boot the virtual machine
5. Uninstall Virtual PC VM Additions by going to Control Panel > Programs and Features
6. Run msconfig.exe and enable ‘Detect HAL’ under Advanced options
7. Reboot
8. Install the Hyper-V Integration Services
9. Reboot
10. Wait for all the new hardware to be detected
11. Reboot
12. Install your own copy of Excel
13. Take a snapshot
14. Enjoy!

Steps

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This post is a great guide for getting the VSTS2010 and updating it so it runs on Hyper-V. Make sure you click through to see the detailed steps…

This finally kicked me off the fence and I’m now copying the VM’s to our Dev Hyper-V host machine and will be executing these steps so my team can also play with VSTS2010,.Net 4 and Win7. These VM’s combined with Virtual Machine Manager (so they can request their own VM’s) should be pretty cool for the team…

 

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